Tomato with voids??

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indysun
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Tomato with voids??

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Post: # 29606Unread post indysun
Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:36 am

What causes hollow tomatoes - this is a Mat Su..............?
I do have another similar variety that seems that way also.
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Post: # 29613Unread post karstopography
Tue Sep 01, 2020 5:54 am

https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/ ... omdis.html

Check out puffiness, the last item on the list. Extreme temperature swings are a possible cause.
Zone 9b, located in the Columbia bottomlands, annual rainfall 46”

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Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:51 am

Some varieties are more prone to this. Some people refer to them as "Stuffers"
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Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:45 pm

Rockoe10 wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:51 am Some varieties are more prone to this. Some people refer to them as "Stuffers"
And that is a great use for them. The stuffing possibilities are endless. Yum.
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Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:03 pm

I hate it when tomatoes do that. Often they get a black bacteria rot inside. I grew pink oxheart for years in zone 6, never had that problem. Moved to zone 7, and had to stop growing them, because most of them grew hollow. I can grow Kellogg's breakfast here, with no hollow problems. Gave some seeds to friends 200 miles away. And everyone of their Kellogg tomatoes were hollow, with rotten spots inside.
I always blamed the weather, and variety-- but I can't prove it.

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Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:22 am

My Pink Oxhearts were like that too.

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Post: # 33189Unread post Paulf
Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:12 am

Several sources say the problems is weather related; generally temperature and watering fluctuations at the times tomatoes are filling out; either hollowness or interiors with lots of white material can be caused by weather conditions. I think most non-pest difficulties tend to be from fluctuations in conditions.

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Post: # 34354Unread post Toomanymatoes
Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:30 pm

Probably cold weather. When the temps dropped, more of my tomatoes had larger cavities. Many different varieties.

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